Game week: Turnaround

In 2012, Tony Grimes was recruited to UH be a shut-down cornerback. But during the 2013 season — his senior year — he was shut down from football activities to focus on academics.

If Grimes was disappointed, he did not show it. Sure, he still chased the dream, training for UH’s pro day the past March. But he also attended classes. At the end of the spring semester, his grade-point average was 3.1.

Although his playing eligibility was exhausted , Grimes needed another year to earn a bachelor’s degree. Coach Norm Chow decided to extend Grimes’ scholarship. Grimes also has a part-time job.

When one door close, another …

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Still searching for the missing blog links. They ‘re somewhere , right?

Once again outstanding coverage in todays SA, thanks. Predictions and assessments abound for this Sat. Field position taking care of the ball and no big plays resulting in “easy” scores, will put the Warriors in position to play a great game. Seriously believe that the effort will be relentless on our side of the ball. So now it will be wait till Saturday!!!!! Go Warriors!!!!

Chopsuey, you make a very insightful point. In the last 10-12 years, Udub has transformed itself, and now is only behind Stanford (way behind) and USC (nipping at their heels) in the size of their endowment. So, at present, they are little under 2.5 billion.

So, for us bean counters, that is about 15 times the size of UHʻs piggy bank.

I was watching the news last night of the Warriors practicing 11 on 11 drills.

All total the segment showed 2 offensive plays.

But those two offensive plays *unnecessarily*

gives out too much information to the opposition. (Trust me these

2 plays weren’t generic type plays).

Chow should limit what the media can telecast during his closed practices.

If past history tells Chow anything is that the former USC coach was quoted as saying (back in the 2010 home opener) that he learned from watching a news telecast that the Warriors were practicing in the pistol formation (which was valuable info to the HC).

On another note I was reading where UH ranked first at running 3.4 offensive

plays a minute last season. From watching last night news telecast (too) I would say the team will probably replicate that pace.

There is so much suspense in a season opener. Everyone can speculate the outcome but won’t know it until the game is played. My hope is the outcome won’t be decided until the final minutes of the game. I want Hawaii to win for sure but I can’t honestly say I expect HI will win. Put me down as hopeful.

pollyp. Surprised you didn’t pickup on all the “loose lips” made by the UH coaches starting with Norm saying they’re going to a spread w/3 wides. Or Wynn saying they’re going uptempo and Clune confirming by saying he likes the quick pace his D has to go up against in practice.

You can bank on it that Petersen and Chow have videos of each others Fall scrimmages.

Kifi, you saying we got to beat Petersen at his own game? Special teams play has been one of the hallmarks of Petersen’s coaching philosophy. Forgot the year but BSU beat us here because of their special teams play. You are correct about winning those two phases.

It’s “take no prisoners” time, either you “believe” or sit at the end of the bench. The Warriors WILL WIN this Saturday, as the Huskies will be a bit overconfident and expect to put it in cruise control…Hit ‘em hard and make them feel like they’ve been in a game. That’s all the Aloha we need to give the Huskies.

I have a feeling too that especially if the game is close, Peterson is gonna pull some kind of play whether on special teams or offense in order to get the go-ahead score or to pull away. It’s gonna be key for the defense to recognize and stop that play when it happens in order for Hawaii to have a chance to pull it off.

boola. I heard that story too. Think after a while due to safety reasons he was the only dancer required to cover up. Had to wear board shorts and a tee shirt or they couldn’t get insurance coverage. Too may women lost control and rushed the stage when he performed shirtless wearing a lava lava. The insurance company deemed it an unacceptable safety risk.

Coco–the story I heard, is that risk managers from the mainland got involved, and even secured the consultation services of Lloyds of London, but even then the word on the street, was that the jewels were both too valuable and too large to adequately underwrite–they tried to even float a bond, but there was insufficient capital.

boola. I will admit USC is my 2nd favorite football team. Growing up I was all about L A teams – Dodgers, Rams , Lakers and Trojans. The team I hated the most was ND, especially during the Parseghian Era.

Coco–true again, for all their top 10 recruiting classes, the marginal teams of the last 20 have been a continual source of fodder, especially since of my best friends is a huge ND fan–good fun teasing him!!!!

The expectation is Washington wins because of vastly superior talent– probably no one from our team could start or be a backup for UW (except Iosefa and Harding)– but effort, smarts, and consistency are important. And a few mistakes can negate superior talent. Hope for some breaks, effort and discipline to keep the game close to the end or an improved team over last year as a payoff.

What I saw was W doing the read option play,2x, one to the left, one to the right…right behind the rt and lt. its a good play. it’s showed him carrying out his progressions very well. the newscast also showed a footage of W taking to the run in one of the games last year, also stating his stats of having run the ball for 73 yards

could this have been during individual drills? my imagination that it was 11 on 11? maybe. I just thought these type of plays should be hidden from the media. you can see different spacings, between center and QB and RB. I just it wasn’t something that should be put out there.

credit the hc, though, for closing the media after the first 1 0 minutes. thats smart.

do i think that the W hc has studied every angle there is to know? probably so. but you never know.

today’s thursday. this is coming along quick. 2 days away. Hope it’s a scorcher. yesterday i think the temperature (correction please) was around 88 at 430 pm the same time as it would be at kickoff on saturday.

The last time we beat Washington, we had Colt Brennan and company. There is no Colt Brennan and company now. The last time we beat Washington, Tyrone Willingham was the UW coach. Now it’s Chris Peterson. Russell D. Russo from the Associated Press has UW 52, UH 17. There is a mis-match in talent. PAC 12 vs MW. God, I hope I’m wrong. I want to see this game go down to the wire and decided on a field goal. May the best team get lucky!

Oceanic/Hawaiian Telcom had reruns of the UH vs Army game on TV last night. After watching that, I am even more pumped up for some UH Football. Check the TV Guides, they may play it again. Good Fun, especially since UH won!

Derek. We’ll always come out on the short end when comparing a Power 5 school talent to ours. Even a school like Colorado has way more 3-4 star rated players than us. Talent alone doesn’t determine the outcome of a game. There’s a laundry list of factors that go into the dynamics of a game. Larry Price’s quip about superior physical superiority cancels all theory is just that, a quip and not a truism.

Washington’s offensive and defensive lines and their backups are the strength of the team. We have some good players on the line this season, but they do not compare to what Washington has. Nobody on our fronts could get on the field for Washington. One exception is Kennedy– he wouldn’t play today, but in another year or two he might be the kind of player that UW has. The talent gap is like the gap between the California high chool that blew out St. Louis high school last week.

But mistakes and turnovers can negate even a gap as big as we are facing. We have seen it happen before.

Temp, I wouldn’t say the talent gap is as wide as you think. John Bosco is in the conversation for the best HS team in the country while Saint Louis talked about as the 3rd-4th best team on Oahu.

Don’t count on a Petersen coached team making too many mistakes. We’re flat out going to have to beat’um. What may work in our favor is how much buy in there was from the UDub returnees. BSU made very few mistakes because in my opinion they were the hardest working off season team in the country. The team leaders lead off season works for conditioning and play run throughs. 100% player participation. They always started the season as one of the most prepared team. Can’t say that yet about UDub.

Cocobean I doubt you will see that happening. Norm Chow is old school and humble. He will express his loss in a private way. As I had written earlier, I am a supporter of the UH Football team so when I put down a score it is not to say whether I’m right or wrong but giving my good vibes to the team so I will always have UH winning. If I was an unbiased predictor of another conference or teams than I would try to give my best take of predicting a winner and loser and score. GO RAINBOW WARRIORS AND TO YOU OUR RAINBOW WAHINES!!!

evening gangie hope this weekend is a good one for you, its a three day weekend for those still working to keep the 808 financially solvent. beside enjoying the xtra time to energize the body remember main thing be safe.

why not start it off by attending the fball game against dem dogs, and/or volleybal wahines games against Ohio, Arizona and San Diego State . leading off this weekend victory parade was the soccer ladies who put up a ‘W’ tonight….congrats to coach bud and the wahines. come on gangie support and represent

Kden finally tonight (up on the soap box) a thumbs down on UH staff that does public announcements at games. Sure they mentioned the sat fball game and shoji beginning his 40th season. But tonight at the soccer game, the basketball wahines and coachs made an appearance to show support for their fellow student and their athletic comrades. Nothing was said. Come on athletic department management lets keep reminding those that work for athletics to make an efforts to bring to the public attention these students and the sacrifices they do in the name of University of Hawaii. You guys kill me just kill me.

you would think by now.. ne announcer for ne uh sports.. should have a check list..etc..of who may attend.. n…maybe get sum tips from the gate or ticket takers…does not take much…..to do that.. n support all sports…

on a football note…hope many here will agree me…game ball to coach n family…show support for their recent loss.. n game ball to beemer for his hard woek in getting the ‘boys’ in shape for their first win of the season…injury free…

it just burn me when I hear we don’t support the teams. the athletic admin should revisit their mission statement or re do it. it should be automatic at any event that a notice should go out when student athletes are in the house.

The article in todays (Friday) SA featuring Rick Blangiardi and moments from 1973 win over W…..the defensive ends were Ramsey Simmons and Simeon “the mongoose” Alo. Albert Holmes rushed for 115 yds, followed by Tui Ala”s 78 yards and Aaron Ahu with 27 yds. There were a few others. Henry Noa had two catches that day…..not long but for first downs, Elton Shintaku at TE had 36 yds on two cathces including a 19 yarder that was key. It was certainly a great day to be a Warrior and the team went on to finish 9-2 if I recall. Everyone would like to recall Casey Ortiz and Allen Brown as the heroes but Albert and Tui at least on offense were the key elements in giving us a chance. Browns 41yard shoulder catch at the boundary is still clear in my memory—–Go Warriors!!!!!

To continue what Thomas was commenting, I have been to a few MBB, WBB and WVB at the SS and never once have I heard “Na Wahine Softball team is taking on the University of _______ tomorrow at the RWSS, game starts at 6:00PM” but at the RWSS during their games they mention any and all games being played at the SS or at Murakami stadium. It seems that the trend of UHAD is to promote only the Revenue sports….

They do go by a script and to get them to change is difficult, we have tried many of times to have them announce that the booster club is taking application for membership and they can’t even do that and it’s our own games…….They need a new marketing team for sure, but we have been saying that for like what 10 years now.

Tony Grimes started his UH football career featured in SI. He was BURNED on first play of game by USC for TD. Last year he was constantly beat while playing corner and then he disappeared. He lost his confidence as football player…very evident by body language. Life goes on…. Good news he gets a degree and moves on with his life.